Best Hundred Years Qoutes
533 Hundred Years quotes by 417 unique authors
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For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is…
— B.F. Skinner
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Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain…
— Vinod Khosla
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Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves…
— Erich Fromm
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American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people…
— Malcolm X
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After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.
— Malcolm X
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I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in…
— Marvin Minsky
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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
— Edmond de Goncourt
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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity…
— Paul Tsongas
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In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years.
— Jonathan Kozol
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Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.
— Paul Theroux
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I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand…
— Naguib Mahfouz
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Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the…
— Nelson A. Miles
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One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord…
— Nelson A. Miles
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Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a…
— Johannes Rau
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A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone…
— Johannes Rau
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There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years…
— Frederick Lenz
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life.…
— Tate Taylor
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A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of…
— Dave Barry
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There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. .…
— Russell Page
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